an orphan train rider was an orphan who was sent out wet between 1854 and 1930.they were looked at by many people and were picked(like you pick a puppy from the pound sorta)to be put into a family because they were either abandoned or their parents couldn't take care of them.some found good home but others were abused many were put in many diffrent homes before they could find one they could stay in.thats sorta sums up what i got off wikapedia and from"orphan train rider by andrea warren"the stuff off wikapedia is in the spoiler below

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Orphan train riders

The Orphan Train was a social experiment that transported children from crowded coastal cities of the United States to the country's Midwest for adoption. The orphan trains ran between 1854 and 1929, relocating an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children. At the time the orphan train movement began, it was estimated that 3,000 vagrant children were living on the streets of New York City.
Two charity institutions, The Children's Aid Society (established by Charles Loring Brace) and The New York Foundling Hospital, determined to help these children. The two institutions developed a program that placed homeless city children into homes throughout the country. The children were transported to their new homes on trains which were eventually labeled “orphan trains.” This period of mass relocation of children in the United States is widely recognized as the beginning of documented foster care in America.
History
Brace believed that institutional care stunted and destroyed children. In his view, only work, education and a strong family life could help them develop into self-reliant citizens. Brace knew that American pioneers could use help settling the American West, so he arranged to send the orphaned children to pioneer families. "In every American community, especially in a western one, there are many spare places at the table of life," Brace wrote. "They have enough for themselves and the stranger too."
The children were encouraged to break completely with their past. They would typically arrive in a town where local community leaders had assembled interested townspeople. The townspeople would inspect the children and after brief interviews with the ones they wanted, take them home. After a trial period, some children became indentured servants to their host families, while most were adopted, formally or informally, as family members.
Between 1854 and 1929, more than 200,000 children rode the “Orphan Train” to new lives. The Orphan Train Heritage Society maintains an archive of riders' stories. The National Orphan Train Museum in Concordia, Kansas maintains records and also houses a research facility.
Two famous former orphan train riders are Governor John Green Brady of Alaska, and Governor Andrew Burke of North Dakota.

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and here are some websites about orphan trainshttp://www.42explore2.com/orphan.htm
http://www.outfitters.com/~melissa/ot/ot.html
http://www.genealinks.com/orphantrain.htm
http://www.uoregon.edu/~adoption/topics/orphan.html
http://www.kancoll.org/articles/orphans/index.html

I fucking love trains! I wish I could've grown up riding a train every day.

please read a little of what was in the spoiler < way to much work on an orphan train you would be taken to some place you dont have a clue where your not told whats happening and you could be taken into the home of some crazy person because you dont have a clue who will take you into their family

I fucking love trains! I wish I could've grown up riding a train every day.

please read a little of what was in the spoiler < way to much work on an orphan train you would be taken to some place you dont have a clue where your not told whats happening and you could be taken into the home of some crazy person because you dont have a clue who will take you into their family

Ok, but would i still be able to ride a train up until the point that I was taken into some crazy persons home?

I fucking love trains! I wish I could've grown up riding a train every day.

please read a little of what was in the spoiler < way to much work on an orphan train you would be taken to some place you dont have a clue where your not told whats happening and you could be taken into the home of some crazy person because you dont have a clue who will take you into their family

Ok, but would i still be able to ride a train up until the point that I was taken into some crazy persons home?

I fucking love trains! I wish I could've grown up riding a train every day.

please read a little of what was in the spoiler < way to much work on an orphan train you would be taken to some place you dont have a clue where your not told whats happening and you could be taken into the home of some crazy person because you dont have a clue who will take you into their family

Ok, but would i still be able to ride a train up until the point that I was taken into some crazy persons home?

I fucking love trains! I wish I could've grown up riding a train every day.

please read a little of what was in the spoiler < way to much work on an orphan train you would be taken to some place you dont have a clue where your not told whats happening and you could be taken into the home of some crazy person because you dont have a clue who will take you into their family

Ok, but would i still be able to ride a train up until the point that I was taken into some crazy persons home?

I fucking love trains! I wish I could've grown up riding a train every day.

please read a little of what was in the spoiler < way to much work on an orphan train you would be taken to some place you dont have a clue where your not told whats happening and you could be taken into the home of some crazy person because you dont have a clue who will take you into their family

Ok, but would i still be able to ride a train up until the point that I was taken into some crazy persons home?